Category Archives: Healthcare

A Candid Conversation w/ Glen Tullman and Lee Shapiro, Investors in the StartUp Health Moonshots Impact Fund

February 1, 2022Business, Health, Healthcare, Innovation, Insights, Startups7Wire Ventures, 7wireVentures, Glen Tullman, HLTH, HLTH 2022, impact investing, Insights, investing, Lee Shapiro, Logan Plaster, StartUp Health, StartUp Health @ ViVE, StartUp Health Insights, StartUp Health Moonshots Fund, Steve Krein, Steven KreinNicole Kinsey

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This week on the show we’re revisiting a conversation that first aired in 2021. It’s from a fireside chat we had with Lee Shapiro and Glen Tullman, the dynamic duo behind ventures like Allscripts, 7wire Ventures, and Livongo. On the call, the two talk with Steven Krein, StartUp Health CEO & Co-founder, about 25 years of lessons learned in investing and how they built health moonshot companies. We hear how Transcarent was “Hatched” and the success drivers behind Livongo. More importantly, we get a candid view of how two icons of health investors think about work and life.

We also learn a bit about why both Lee Shapiro and Glen Tullman have invested in the StartUp Health Moonshots Impact Fund, which launched last year. This fund makes it easy for investors to back a diverse portfolio of health startups, and you can learn all about it at healthmoonshots.com.

Lee Shapiro and Glen Tullman will be joining StartUp Health and more than 50 of our Health Transformers at ViVE, a premier health innovation event by HLTH and CHIME that’s happening in Miami Beach from March 6-9. StartUp Health @ ViVE will bring together founders, partners, and investors under one collaborative roof, and we’ll be broadcasting stories of health moonshot progress from the StartUp Health TV Studio. We hope you’ll join us in Miami Beach! Learn more and save on your ViVE registration at startuphealth.com/vive.

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How HLTH and StartUp Health Are Uniting the Health Innovation Ecosystem, with Rich Scarfo

January 25, 2022Business, Health, Healthcare, Innovation, StartupsHLTH, HLTH 2022, Innovation, Logan Plaster, Partnerships, Rich Scarfo, StartUp Health, StartUp Health Festival, Telehealth, ViVE 2022Nicole Kinsey

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On January 18, 2022, StartUp Health announced a multi-year partnership with HLTH, the leading platform for bringing together the health ecosystem around innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology. In order to understand more about the partnership, we sat down with Rich Scarfo, President of HLTH. In addition to hearing his take on the recent news, we get to hear some war stories about what it has been like to be in the event business during COVID-19, and how HLTH thrived in the face of some daunting challenges.

Join us in Miami Beach in March for StartUp Health @ ViVE 2022: startuphealth.com/vive

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How to Clinically Validate Your Startup, With AliveCor’s Dr. Archana Dubey

January 18, 2022Business, Health, Healthcare, Innovation, StartupsAliveCor, Archana Dubey, HealthTech, Logan PlasterNicole Kinsey

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Archana Dubey, MD, the Chief Clinical Officer at AliveCor, has worked as a primary care physician, on the enterprise side at HP, and in startups as a founder herself. AliveCor has been a pioneer in the med tech device market for a decade, introducing the world’s first single-lead ECG built for consumers. Our conversation centers on AliveCor’s lessons learned in clinical validation, consumer marketing, and tech integrations.

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Responsum Health’s Latest App Puts Long-COVID Front and Center

January 10, 2022Business, Health, Healthcare, Innovation, Insights, StartupsAccess to care, coronavirus, Covid, Covid 19, COVID19, Cure Disease, Health Moonshot Update, Health Moonshots, Logan Plaster, Pandemic Response, Responsum HealthNicole Kinsey

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Our guest today is Andrew Rosenberg, CEO and Founder of Responsum Health, which StartUp Health backed in 2019. At Responsum, Rosenberg and his team have created disease-specific apps that bring together curated information and news about that disease as well as a professionally-moderated community chat, so patients can connect and learn in a safe environment. Their recent app developed around Long-COVID has exploded with activity, so we sat down with Rosenberg to hear what he’s learning from this community of patients.

Join us in Miami Beach in March at StartUp Health @ ViVE 2022 and meet Andrew Rosenberg and other Health Transformers: startuphealth.com/vive

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Startup Strategies: The Secret to Successful Tech Transfer at a Major University

December 21, 2021Business, Health, Healthcare, Innovation, StartupsLogan Plaster, Weill Cornell, WisdomNicole Kinsey

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Our guest is Lukasz Kowalik, senior licensing and business development officer at Weill Cornell. Lukasz has a degree in chemistry, a PhD in neuroscience, and a postdoc in chemical biology. But he also works in business development, and his current position has him helping inventors and startups transition into commercialization in partnership with a large university health system. In this StartUp Health NOW episode we dig into how those worlds come together and learn what makes successful tech transfer partnerships.

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For Ironman Athlete David Weingard, a Diabetes Diagnosis Was a Spark for Innovation

November 30, 2021Business, Health, Healthcare, Innovation, Insights, StartupsAccess to care, Cecelia Health, Cure Disease, David Weingard, diabetes, Health Moonshot Update, Health Moonshots, Logan Plaster, Startup, StartUp HealthStartUp Health

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Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who hasn’t been impacted by diabetes in some way. Globally, half a billion people are affected by the disease, and it was responsible for the deaths of 1.5M people globally in 2019. As frightening as those numbers are, there is also great hope to be found today in the entrepreneurs and innovations changing how we manage diabetes. To understand both sides of this coin – the very personal toll of diabetes plus the present and future promise of health technology – we talked to David Weingard, founder of Cecelia Health, which helps diabetics get the specialized health coaching they need. More importantly, David is a type 1 diabetic who has fought for his own life and knows the daily fears and challenges that this silent disease brings to millions. It’s that combination of experience that makes David’s journey so powerful.

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Julie Yoo: A Look at How Andreessen Horowitz Invests in the Future of Health

November 22, 2021Business, Health, Healthcare, Innovation, Insights, Startupsa16z, Andreessen Horowitz, Entrepreneue, investing, Logan Plaster, Startup, Yulee YooStartUp Health

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This week on the podcast we sat down with Andreessen Horowitz’s General Partner, Julie Yoo. Julie leads the firm’s investments in healthtech with a focus on companies that are modernizing how we access, how we pay for, and how we experience healthcare. During this Fireside Chat, Yoo talked about the growth of home health, fintech for healthcare, and her personal passions around solving for provider shortage issues and the mismatch of supply & demand. This session was hosted by StartUp Health’s Logan Plaster in front of a live audience of founders from the StartUp Health portfolio.

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Market Strategy & Insights With Aetna’s Brigitte Nettesheim

November 15, 2021Business, Health, Healthcare, Innovation, Insights, StartupsAetna, Brigitte Nettesheim, CVS, CVS Health, Logan Plaster, StartUp HealthStartUp Health

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This week on the podcast we sat down with Brigitte Nettesheim from Aetna, a CVS Health company. In this conversation, Brigitte shares how she and her team develop market strategies and what they look for in partnerships that strengthen member experience. Brigitte also gave an insider view of best practices to connect into Aetna, like focusing on personalized engagement, access to care, and reduced costs. This session was hosted by StartUp Health’s Logan Plaster in front of a live audience of founders from the StartUp Health portfolio.

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youturn’s Shay Houser Is Making Addiction Treatment More Accessible

November 8, 2021Business, Health, Healthcare, Innovation, Insights, StartupsAddiction, end addiction, Health Moonshot, Health Moonshot Update, Health Moonshots, Logan Plaster, Shay Houser, youturnStartUp Health

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On this podcast episode, which was recorded live on the floor of HLTH in Boston in October, StartUp Health’s Logan Plaster sits down with Shay Houser, the CEO and Co-founder of youturn. Shay and his team are working to fight addiction by making addiction treatment resources more accessible. They’ve recognized that it isn’t just the addicted person who is effected, but a wide community of friends and family, so they’re working with employers to address problems early and to respond to addiction as a community of support. Shay comes at youturn as both a serial entrepreneur and as someone who has struggled with addiction. That combination of tactical and personal experience has helped the startup secure important early partnerships, which Shay discusses in the interview.

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Two Founders Transforming Children’s Health

November 2, 2021HealthcareChildrens Health, Childrens healthcare, Danny Hui, disability care, Dr. Sandy Whitehouse, Health Moonshot, Health Moonshot Series, Health Moonshot Update, Health Moonshots, India Edwards, Logan Plaster, sameview, Sandy Whitehouse, StartUp Health, Tickit healthStartUp Health

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This special episode is part of our monthly Health Moonshot series. Each month we take one of StartUp Health’s 12 audacious health goals and highlight founders working to make the impossible a reality. Now, we’re talking about Children’s Health. Hosts Logan Plaster and India Edwards discuss two entrepreneurs from the StartUp Health portfolio who have developed incredible technology to help advance children’s healthcare. Dr. Sandy Whitehouse, CEO, Co-founder, and Chief Medical Officer of Tickit Health, a startup that’s based in Vancouver, works with educational, clinical, and youth service experts around the world to capture personal information from individuals via digitally empathetic surveys and assessments and other management tools to collect data to address the rise of stress, bullying, substance use, and other risky behaviors in youth. Danny Hui, the CEO & Founder of sameview, a startup out of Sydney, Australia, is working to bring teamwork into disability care.

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